On 2015-03-06 07:14 PM, thufir wrote:
i assume also, thufir, that you have read, understood, and agree that if 77 highly intelligent and prominent computer scientists - many of them having NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GPL - go to the extraordinary lengths of submitting an amicus brief against the copyrighting of APIs,
If you'd like to delve into the specifics of that amicus brief, I'd be glad to, and would point you to alternate briefs disagreeing fundamentally on, in particular, the implications of a decision in favor of Oracle, in respect on the copyrightability of API's. While it's seen as doom and gloom, I'd say "not so," and, if you like, will quote someone else on that. But it's moot, the FSF has already filed its briefs.
It's not a poll; or, rather, it's only a poll of the SCOTUS. That being said, of course I take your point that, I'm sure, quite a few prominent computer scientists disagree. They can still be wrong, can't they?
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